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Stephanie Medley-Rath; Michael D. Gillespie; Nicholas Novosel; Sydnye Combs; Drew Fearnow – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Textbooks offer instructors an opportunity to promote data visualization and statistical literacy throughout the sociology curriculum. In this study, we examined 463 data visualizations from 27 textbooks for Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, and intermediate elective courses to illuminate the range of data visualizations and their use of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Visual Aids, Textbook Evaluation
Murphy, Debra D. – Online Submission, 2017
The textbook is often a primary resource for teachers in elementary content areas, and it is often used to the exclusion of other resources. Research indicates that students may not have sufficient exposure to elements of nonfiction texts in order to be successful when encountering them in the content area. For many years, there has been little…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Textbooks, Elementary Education, Textbook Content